The Government has issued an important update in response to calls for a nationwide ban on the public sale of fireworks . More than 180,000 people have now signed a petition which argues that unregulated use of fireworks is a threat to vulnerable people and an 'act of wide-scale cruelty to animals '. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has now issued a statement. It says it recognises that fireworks can have a negative impact on people, animals, and property, but stressed that they also